- Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people. - When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. - Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
- But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed. - But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
- For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- I have stored up your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you. - Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life;
he who despises his ways will die. - Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
- But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
- Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
- For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
and I will remember their sins no more. - That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
- You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless,
but destruction to evildoers. - Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
- I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud
and your sins like mist;
return to me, for I have redeemed you. - Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love. - This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
- In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
- In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
- Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
- Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
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